Oh yeah I was thinking more along the lines of video games or movies where there are too many people creating it. For books, etc you can definitely donate.

There should be a way to pay only the workers when you buy something. In that case, you could pay them but only after pirating and making sure you enjoy it. Since there is nothing like that, I think you should pay only content from small creators. Big creators already have plenty, and paying for anything else just gives money to greedy executives who then lower the quality of the content to make more money. Of course, if you have the means and don't pay anything, you are just making sure there will be less of that content made in the future. It isn't scalable; if everybody pirated content without paying a single cent, there would be no content made except by hobbyists who don't want to make a living out of it.

I really like to see communities like lemmy.film, mtgzone.com, and programming.dev and wish there was an instance about literature.

Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor and government whistleblower, has been credited with the quote "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say". Snowden has argued that privacy is a fundamental right and that without it, individuals cannot have anything for themselves. The "nothing to hide" argument has been used to defend the collection and use of government data beyond surveillance and disclosure, but critics argue that it is inherently paradoxical and that what is hidden is not necessarily relevant. Snowden has also stated that the burden of justification falls on those seeking to infringe upon human rights, and that nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right.

This has already been mentioned a few times. Just find the relevant issue on GitHub and give it an upvote.

• The rank of a post in the aggregated feed should be inversely proportional to the size of the community #1026
• Weighted Community Subscription for Customized Feed #3518
• Balance Instance Scores Based on Monthly Active Users #3642

Depending on which instances are blocked you will see different content in ones or others. Which is why I choose instance based on the minimum number of blocked users based on the results of this script.

I knew I recognized him from somewhere. He was the developer of lib.reviews. https://github.com/eloquence

I'm still waiting for a local autonomous AI agent with search. I don't understand why most autonomous agent projects use GPT-4 without incorporating search capabilities. Allowing the model to continuously hallucinate is not productive. Instead, it should be able to discover factual information and perform genuinely useful tasks.

I don't care about the Bible, it's just an expression. I think.

> *[@username](profile_link)* said:
>
> > Original quote from the person
>
> Source: [Link to the source](source_link)

For example:

> [@GodOfThunder@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/GodOfThunder) said:
>
> > How would you quote someone using CommonMark markdown syntax?
>
> [Source](https://lemm.ee/post/1063209)

Result:

@GodOfThunder@lemm.ee said:

How would you quote someone using CommonMark markdown syntax?

Source

I think Israel has too much of an upper hand there to ever leave. It's only a matter of time before they make smaller and cheaper drones that they can release as a swarm.

I like this idea, but I would suggest generalizing it to apply to any similar posts. That way, we can find the best answers to a question without having to open multiple posts asking the same thing.

Issue #1908: Merge comments from similar posts into a single view